UMNO always makes silly rule. Remember the quota system, which was introduced by Mahathir long time ago? That was silly but it was important for Mahathir at that time. It was the quota system that he forced upon UMNO members that made him survived a long 20-plus years at the helm of UMNO. But Mahathir ‘Mudah Lupa’ forgot that it was his own quota system that he recently urged to be abolish. Abuse was his reason for urging to let go the tool that he had conveniently used for years to stay in power. This man needs help badly to recover his memory. Maybe he should buy some ‘kismis minda’ to improve his loss of memory.
So when I read this piece about UMNO Youth making it compulsory for those vying for national youth posts to have blogs, I could not help but feel sorry for them.
Abdul Rahman Dahlan, secretary general of the United Malays National Organization party’s youth wing, said all those vying for national youth posts must have blogs to introduce themselves and their programs ahead of party elections in December.
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“All candidates must have blogs,” Abdul Rahman told The Associated Press. “If not, they are not qualified to be leaders.”
Read more at Yahoo News
Not that I am looking down on UMNO’s effort to be more IT savvy and embrace new media… but making it compulsory for all vying for top posts in UMNO Youth to have blogs is simply ridiculous, not because of anything else but because we all know how lowsy UMNO and BN are at adopting new media such as blogs, especially for the right reasons.
Malaysians (politicians or otherwise) have turned to blogs and online media because BN abuses its power to control the media and publish many lies in the mainstream medias. To cut the long story short, the BN lost badly in the recent election and one of the reasons identified was the fact that BN had underestimated the power of online media such blogs.
From my point of view, UMNO and BN don’t need new media just to spread more lies and mislead more people. For one, maintaining the online media such as blogs requires commitment which I don’t think is abudant within UMNO and BN especially when there is no money to be gained directly from this activity.
I am almost sure, this new ruling will be a mockery in itself to UMNO Youth and will definitely become sources of laughing stocks for more sophisticated ordinary Malaysians who have long embraced this new way of life. Those power and money hungry UMNO politicians will simply pay someone to create the blogs for them just to fulfill this new requirement. After a while these blogs will be dead and before UMNO and BN realized it, they will lose the 13th general election, thanks to the internet for allowing more people around the world to see BN and UMNO digging their own graves in cyberspace.
The Kuala Lumpur Traveler welcomes UMNO Youth monkeys to the blogosphere.